Mary Anne's budding new relationship with adorable boy baby-sitter Logan is complicated when she recommends him to the other members of the Baby-sitters club for extraneous jobs.
Abelard and Heloise - The Letters and Other Writings
The most comprehensive compilation of the works of Abelard and Heloise ever presented in a single volume in English, The Letters and Other Writings features an accurate and stylistically faithful new translation of both The Calamities of Peter Abelard and the remarkable letters it sparked between the ill-fated twelfth-century philosopher and his brilliant former student and lover -- an exchange whose intellectual passion, formal virtuosity, and psychological drama distinguish it as one of the most extraordinary correspondences in European history.
Referred to by Henry James as ‘the first novelist of his time’ Ivan Turgenev’s works focus on class, love and suffering. Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories with its themes of the supernatural was, therefore, something of a departure for a writer who was well-known for his more humanitarian and liberal views. However, Turgenev uses these supernatural elements as a vehicle for exploring the irrationalities of the human psyche and he leaves the rational explanations for apparently supernatural events ambiguous - as Avrahm Yarmolinsky writes in his biography of Turgenev perhaps ‘there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in positivist philosophy'.
The six tales now translated for the English reader were written by Turgenev at various dates between 1847 and 1881. These stories demonstrate Turgenev’s matchless skill for portraying elemental aspects of Russian life: the melancholic, the nostalgic, and the darkly comic.
